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Virtual worlds have been around for years. Even the best-selling Sims computer game has an online version in which people create characters, build homes and interact with others. But while The Sims Online has so far been a flop, Habbo has been an instant hit. Why? Habbo's focus on teens and chatting is one reason, as is its price tag: it's free. Despite the no-charge admission, there are oodles of games to play and rooms to explore. Habbo also has some healthy rules: the site blocks all swearwords and has adult moderators. Teens can send private...
Dean would have one more, less tangible advantage: he doesn't sound like a politician. One reason the flip-flop charge has stuck is that Kerry, with his meandering, caveat-filled speaking style, often seems like a guy trying to avoid a straight answer. Sensing that vulnerability, Republicans have run the same playbook they ran against Al Gore: portraying Kerry's personality deficiencies as deficiencies of character. As a result, while Kerry leads Bush on most domestic issues, voters turn sour when asked about Kerry the man. In last week's TIME poll, Kerry's biggest deficit versus Bush...
...voted yes again--even if he had known that Saddam didn't have weapons of mass destruction--he has made his Iraq contortions, rather than the war itself, the issue. Even last week, as Kerry stepped up his attacks, Bush continued to evade them with one devastating word: flip-flop...
...proposed for operations in Iraq, which Kerry says he initially supported but then later opposed: “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.” Bush clearly cannot forgive his opponent for this oratorical inferiority. By “flip-flop,” I think he is trying to say that at first, when a fair and economically feasible version of the bill was on the Senate floor, Kerry supported it, but after the Bush administration used the threat of a veto to change critical clauses of the bill...
...clever malice just might spell a winning ticket. In a sense, they’ve already won a personal victory: they have transformed their public image from that of tongue-tied oratorical brutes to veritable acrobats of rhetoric. If that doesn’t count as a flip-flop, I don’t know what does...